What We Do
Essential Services
NoHo Home’s Drop-In Access Center provides essential services like meals, clothes, and showers as a means to build relationships with our unhoused neighbors. Through these relationships, we can best understand how to support their goals and provide a full range of stabilizing services: a no-barrier mail service, identification document support, device charging, access to internet, housing referrals and navigation within the HMIS system, and wrap-around case management. We nurture community with the understanding that change becomes possible in the context of safe, reliable relationships that affirm human dignity.
Essential Services
NoHo Home’s Drop-In Access Center provides essential services like meals, clothes, and showers as a means to build relationships with our unhoused neighbors. Through these relationships, we can best understand how to support their goals and provide a full range of stabilizing services: a no-barrier mail service, identification document support, device charging, access to internet, housing referrals and navigation within the HMIS system, and wrap-around case management. We nurture community with the understanding that change becomes possible in the context of safe, reliable relationships that affirm human dignity.
Community Engagement
NoHo Home engages our San Fernando Valley neighbors from all income levels and walks of life. The collaboration between our program participants, our volunteers, and our staff is a core principle of our work. Through relationships, we forge bonds of care, hold each other accountable, and advocate for a world where no one has to go without food or a home.
A Replicable Model of Service
NoHo Home envisions an LA County with Drop-In Access Centers for people experiencing homelessness are available every 5 miles. Years of empowering and cultivating an enriching program that meets the needs of our diverse community have infused our best-practice model, which we share with communities interested in replicating these important fixtures of our neighborhoods.
When a community works with us to develop their own Access Center, NoHo Home takes an advisory and materially supportive role in these Drop-In Centers, providing technical assistance and staffing to develop and sustain affiliate sites.
Proven Success
Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City
In 2020, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City (UUCSC) became a host-site for a second branch of our access center. In 2024, following a year-long transition and planning period with key UUCSC and NoHo Home stakeholders, the UUCSC congregation voted to adopt the program as its own.
Operating as an affiliate site to NoHo Home Alliance, the UUCSC Drop-In Access Center serves the Studio City community every Tuesday, providing the high-quality service to unhoused neighbors characteristic of a NoHo Home Alliance program, but with UUCSC’s own touch and improvements.
They constantly find ways to be better, and our mutual collaboration creates a stronger model everywhere we serve. This example proves how implementing our model of service while empowering communities to lead creates a unique affiliate. UUCSC can now provide site-specific services and broaden the access to services for our unhoused community.
